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The Grasshopper - Third Edition Games, Life and Utopia

Bernard Suits

In the mid twentieth century the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein famously asserted that games are indefinable; there are no common threads that link them all. “Nonsense,” said the sensible Bernard Suits: “playing a game is a voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles.” The short book Suits...

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The Ezra Klein Show

C.ThiNguyen mentioned discovering Bernard Soot's The Grasshopper and described it as an influential 1970s work that defined his thinking about games.

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I found this incredible book, Bernard Soot's The Grasshopper. It kind of got lost for a while and then refound and became kind of a cult favorite.

— Episode: Best of: A Life-Changing Philosophy of G...

Episode: Best of: A Life-Changing Philosophy of Games

C.ThiNguyen mentioned discovering Bernard Soot's The Grasshopper and described it as an influential 1970s work that defined his thinking about games.

"

I found this incredible book, Bernard Soot's The Grasshopper. It kind of got lost for a while and then refound and became kind of a cult favorite.

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